Siri AI

> We’re deeply disappointed that our EU users won’t have Siri AI on iPhone or iPad when we share our new software releases later this year

I really enjoy this lag. Apple with the whole DMA made iPhone completely dull to my eyes. Previously? Updated yearly. Now? 3+ years without replacement and probably will stick to it for next 2-3 years.

Sure maybe in US Apple is fun. But in EU it's.. boring (and not like a Golang boring, just boring)

Great, as long as I can switch it off and use my phone as I always have, I'm happy for them.

I can't wait to take a photo of a cricket ball and ask it what it is, ffs.

These people need to get out, touch grass, watch trees swaying in the breeze, and put their phones down before they lose toonmany neurons.

Here's what I want: natural language interaction to achieve complex workflows in iPhone. Example: find the cheapest way to go from A to B and book it using the Deutsche Bahn Train app.

I still don't think Siri can do that ::angry::

Honestly I don’t have much faith in Apple intelligence when it can’t even search my settings.

all the limitations of on-device with none of the benefits, it seems? they gotta get SOMETHING out there and soon but idk, i would probably feel safer running a chinese model through a 3P iOS app shell vs. trusting Geminiri to not snitch if i cared about the sanctity of my personal information.

The most notable thing here is that they finally have the primitives to make Siri actually useful across apps. I can't even use Siri to close Google Maps in my car right now.

More or less stuck AI in all the obvious spots, which will probably be fine I guess. Not super exciting!

So Siri is basically now a Gemini agent?

Our family uses Siri with a HomePod a lot, and it's already much better than it was a couple of years ago where it could basically set timers, tell you the weather. Now it answers questions ("when did the Knicks last win an NBA championship") with decent answers, instead of "I'll send the web results to your phone". But it's still far behind voice-chatting with Claude in the Claude app, so very much looking forward to this upgrade.

I will say though that proper voice transcription in Claude -- or any of these agents -- sucks. If it can't understand the question properly, then it can't provide the right answer. It works okay for me, but not for my kids, not when speaking quickly or in incomplete sentences (as people tend to do), etc.

This is disappointing. I had hoped when Apple revisited AI that they would lean into agents more and give us some sort of agent interface between the phone and a model running locally on your Mac at home. More niche for sure, but much more powerful. Instead we're getting more generic AI tie-ins to apps and "suggestions".

For real this time...

How many companies did they just Sherlock?

missed opportunity to call it "VibeSiri"

‪A multi trillion dollar company not able to create open apis for competition … definitely the EUs fault ‬

If this is good, I might finally ditch my 12 mini.

The one thing I've been trying to figure out / hoping will get a fix is that in the apple intelligence settings panel there is an 'extension' that allows it to use chatgpt. I would like to be able to have an extension for local models and/or custom apis.

I’m honestly surprised Apple didn’t retire the Siri brand.

At this point, “Siri” has a pretty strong cultural association with being underwhelming or unhelpful. Even if the new version is dramatically better, convincing people to give Siri another shot may be harder than launching the same technology under a new name.

Feels like a missed opportunity to reset expectations.

Associated post: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-introduces-siri...

Can Apple now focus on rolling back Liquid Glass “upgrade”?

I was at Best Buy in the Apple section, and I asked its AI "What is the best value in four year old MacBook pros." It pointed me directly at an over-under washer dryer for $3400. Quite obviously, it was trained, like a drooling puppy by Madison Ave.

Wait... don't tell me... there is an App for that.

I go on long walks and talk to ChatGPT in depth in its conversation mode about programming and computing in depth.

That’s what I expected from Siri but you can get in from ChatGPT .

Hey look! Here's something new that we could already do but now it costs more and takes more engineering and.. AI

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Apple's "New Coke" moment?

Newest phones get latest models

Genius way to sell more phones

Really they are just selling on device Ai

I like the idea for normal people. Day to day usage who ignore hallucinations is a big market.

> Siri AI coming in English later this year.

Strange way to phrase it, but okay.

> Siri AI will be available In beta later this year and requires an Apple Intelligence–enabled device set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS.

Ah okay, not EU enabled. The only reason for this, in my tinfoil hat, must be for data farming.

Apple's execution on AI is the worst of anything I can think of they have worked on in the past 20 years. It's embarrassing they announced this with a vague "coming this fall" when they basically have completely lost credibility in their ability to ship AI features considering it was initially announced YEARS ago.

I think a lot of it is the old "perfect is the enemy of good" with Apple trying multiple times now to announce this big basket of all these AI features supposedly coming all at once instead of just regularly shipping new useful AI integrations every month. There was so much easy useful shit that was immediately apparent as soon at OpenAI dropped that first big voice mode years ago coupled with basic app integrations. Particularly in the context of the AI labs that are operating in that lane almost too much where it seems a new model or mode comes out every two weeks.